Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World on what the Hall Syndicate calls "an average sort of town filled with average sort of people, all of whom have warm, human stories." Differences in faith, doctrine and observance are passed lightly by, though later sequences are planned to build up a priest and a rabbi as community heroes. Idea for the strip came from Robert M. Hall, president of the Hall Syndicate, though many another syndicate had considered and rejected it as too controversial to handle. Apparently, the hero is a minister simply for the sake of credibility in presenting spiritually centered man "against the heavy materialistic...
Died. Eugenio Zolli, 74, onetime (1940-45) Chief Rabbi of Rome, who became a Roman Catholic after World War II, changed his first name from Israel to Eugenio as a gesture of gratitude to Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for his sympathetic attitude toward the Jews during the Nazi and Fascist persecutions; in Rome...
George H. Williams, professor of Church History, charged many of today's public schools with a "subtle violation of the separation of church and state," in a discussion with a Jewish rabbi and a Roman Catholic priest yesterday...
...should Jews observe kashruth? Says Rabbi Leonard Oschry of Chicago's Hebrew Theological College, who is leading a campaign for more kosher households: "By observing it, I make my whole life holy; it is a daily reminder of my Jewishness." Said a Jewish housewife: "You can't really be a good Jew if you don't keep a kosher house...
Kosher meat is more expensive, too. Its slaughter must be rabbinically supervised and conducted according to a set ritual pattern that stresses humaneness. The animal's throat must be cut, says Israel's Chief Rabbi Herzog, "with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered...